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Faulkner’s Harlem Renaissance
November 20, 2013 This past week I was teaching Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing. I’d never assigned them before, but they couldn’t have been better — for my “Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner” class. How else to contextualize Light in August? Not … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Douglas, Aime Césaire, August Wilson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Light in August, Matisse, Picasso, Romare Bearden, Tender is the Night, The Black Atlantic, University of Mississippi, William Faulkner
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Mama Day: The Tempest in the Global South
October 2, 2014 Her name is Miranda (“Mama”) Day — yes, that Miranda, the one who said, “Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is!” Gloria Naylor is not the first to take on Shakespeare, of course. … Continue reading